zinc

n : a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at

ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in

a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it

occurs as zinc sulphide in zinc blende [syn: {Zn}, {atomic

number 30}]

inc

/ink/ increment, i.e. increase by one. Especially used by

{assembly} programmers, as many assembly languages have an

"inc" {mnemonic}.

Antonym: {dec}.

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